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Exploring the Influence of Big Tech Lobbying on Canadian Tech Policy
Renee Black, Edward Wu, Femi Gbolahan, YeJin Kang, and Sadaf Qureshi
The paper demonstrates the need for a comprehensive research agenda to better understand the evolving policy influence environment, and create policy options to strengthen oversight, restore public trust and advance balanced digital and AI policy.
RECENT PAPERS
Do Chatbot Developers Act Responsibly toward their Users?
Susan Ariel Aaronson and Michael MorenoDevelopers struggle to incorporate responsible AI into their practice and products, for several reasons. In this paper, we examine whether four major AI developers — OpenAI, Google, xAI and DeepSeek — act responsibly when developing and deploying chatbots. We focus on a key element of AI responsibility: user rights and welfare.
Beyond the App Store: Reproductive Governance and the Limits of Digital Autonomy
Marika Jeziorek and Natasha TusikovDigital contraceptive and fertility-tracking apps are increasingly central to how reproductive autonomy is imagined, marketed and managed. This paper interrogates how digital contraceptive apps govern reproduction through mechanisms of responsibilization, commodification and consent.
The Economics of the Data-driven Economy and the Demand for Antitrust
Dan CiuriakAntitrust is again in vogue; its long winter has ended. The revival of demand for antitrust is coincident with the advent of a new Gilded Age — this time in the context of an economy built on intangible assets — IP and (later, increasingly) data.